Tory Story
August 27, 2009 – 12:26 pm -“For reasons I forget, I was once at a party with a group of Tory women. Bored, I asked if their husbands fancied Maggie. Some did, some didn’t. ‘And who’s your heartthrob?’ I asked, expecting Cameron or Osborne or Cecil Parkinson for the older. Unanimously the response came ‘John Major’. Apparently even the briefest of chats with him was enough to leave the ladies of the Right weak of knee and, in one case, bladder. No-one could explain it.”
(from: ccbaxter)
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1995: Supergrass – Alright
August 26, 2009 – 4:00 pm -With Sadie Frost appearing in the video for “Common People” and Danny Goffey’s band Supergrass releasing their defining hit “Alright” in 1995, most of the cast of the infamous “Baby munching an E” sketch of 2002 were involved in the Britpop scene in some way or other.
Pearl Lowe was making waves with her band Powder around that time (and she and Danny first got together in ’95). If only Jude Law had done a few months as The Bluetones’ roadie, we’d have had the full set…
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Spotted:
August 26, 2009 – 10:00 am -“Basset-faced gritty auteur Mike Leigh pushing his trolley around Bloomsbury Waitrose. With a bunch of blue agapanthus, rice pasta, red peppers, corn on the cob, tomatoes and two packets of cooker mussels.”
(from: celtiagirl)
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Quick Uri story
August 25, 2009 – 12:19 pm -“He came to my student uni once to give a talk, in which he claimed he was secretly hired by the Isreali special forces in the 70s to help fight adversaries using his “superpowers” (ala Dr Atomic in Watchman), that he can stop any watch just by looking at it, and that he knew Marilyn Monroe, even though he was 16 when she died. After that he did some tricks (no spoons I’m afraid) and seemed to have a particular glint in his eye for the Union secretary.”
(from: too_fat_to_skate)
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1995: Pulp – Common People
August 24, 2009 – 4:00 pm -From the days when Sadie Frost was best known for being Martin Kemp’s sister-in-law:
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Mail Online – the best of the best
August 24, 2009 – 3:41 pm -The Mail Online has a section entitled ‘Editor’s six of the best’. Here are two examples of what the editor has thrown up for our special attention:
“I Yabba Dabba Do: Two couples dress as cavemen for Flintstones-inspired wedding.” [Read here]
“Love-struck pensioner travels 130 miles in wheelchair to propose – but is rescued by police after offer is rejected.” [Read here]
The pensioner one is attributed to the ‘Mail Foreign Service’. It’s nice to know they’re spending their time on worthy foreign reports, covering all bases.
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1995: Ash – Girl From Mars
August 23, 2009 – 3:00 pm -“Girl From Mars” was, at one time, used by NASA as their hold music.
[1995 is just around the corner]
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1995: Weezer – Buddy Holly
August 22, 2009 – 3:00 pm -Weezer’s singer, Rivers Cuomo, has a brother called Leaves.
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1995: Love City Groove – Love City Groove
August 21, 2009 – 4:00 pm -Nothing says ‘limited shelf life’ quite like a debut single that shares a name with the band.
Particularly if that name is Love City Groove.
[If you can stomach any more...]
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Sleb spot Friday
August 21, 2009 – 10:59 am -“My already high opinion of Bill Nighy was heightened last week when he walked past a pub outside of which i was loitering and, on overhearing my effortlessly cool yelp of ‘shit me, that was Bill Nighy!’, spun around on his immaculately heeled shoe, gave me a wave, and in one swift move, continued spinning back to his original position and carried on walking down the street. The man is a god.”
(from: magic_minnie)
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